A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...

On Monday nights, the mountains around here sleep well. They have heard the old songs. And the shoes that tap the hardwood floor land like a mother’s pat on a baby’s back. The music comes from a white ...

During the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a distinctive form of fiddle music emerged in Texas. Known for idiosyncratic timing and phrasing, this style was commonly played with banjos or ...

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with San Antonio-based fiddle player Belen Escobedo about the old-style barn dance music her grandfather taught her to play. Escobedo says when she plays the old songs ...

The Old Tyme Fiddlers will be the first to play on Sunday afternoon at the Fall Fiddle Festival in Beach Lake. Organizer Steve Jacobi expects other participants will bring bluegrass, Celtic, western ...

The fiddle accompanied Lewis & Clark across the West. Fur trappers danced to it. Fiddle music followed the Métís as they sought a safe place south of the border, and they shared it with the Blackfeet.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Xiong / EyeEm / Getty Images Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You ...

The Ten Pound Fiddle, a folk music organization in Lansing, Michigan, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The organization's longevity is attributed to its dedicated volunteers, strong financial ...

Bud Larsen built his first Hardanger fiddle when he was in the seventh grade. Now 80 years old, he’s built more than 40 of the instruments and repaired well over 100. He learned the craft from Gunnar ...

Katy Hill, a pretty, 15-year-old fiddle player-extraordinaire came with her parents to chat with the Tallahassee Democrat on the second floor of the Tallahassee Senior Center. It was after her school ...